Iota and Jot
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[edit] jot
- jot (verb) to write briefly of hastily
- jot (noun) a very small amount
[from Greek iota, Hebrew yodh, the smallest letters in those two alphabets]
Iota and its successor Jot are Turing tarpits, esoteric programming languages that are designed to be as small as possible but still Turing-complete. Each uses two symbols and involves two operations, with simple denotational semantics defined in terms of lambda calculus. Zot is an extension of Jot that includes input and output mechanisms.
